With all this talk about how stupid some bosses are...okay, ALL bosses...we should not forget those we also work with, or are employed because they're customers.
I worked in a health club for twenty years. (If you're IQ was too high, they wouldn't hire you, get the idea?) The most common telephone question we received was:
"Uh, yeah, could you tell me what time the 4:30 class starts?"
It was a club that had a LOT of sorority/fraternity people as members...I'm just sayin...
I worked in a health club for twenty years. (If you're IQ was too high, they wouldn't hire you, get the idea?) The most common telephone question we received was:
"Uh, yeah, could you tell me what time the 4:30 class starts?"
It was a club that had a LOT of sorority/fraternity people as members...I'm just sayin...
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Wed, December 1, 2004 - 7:53 AMI used to work at a movie theatre during college. We were going to make an instructional video on how to be an intelligent customer.
And yes, we would get questions like, "What time does the 815 show of Titanic start?" -
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Fri, December 3, 2004 - 9:36 PMOkay...
On the surface, yeah, that sounds like a dumbass question. However, I'll bet I know why people ask it.
They ask it because theater after theater keeps showing progressively longer strings of not-even-good-enough-for-television junk that annoys and infuriates people who have paid good goddamn money to just watch a fuckin' movie in peace.
So, when I see that a movie starts at 8:10, and I want to know when it REALLY starts (which is probably going to be about 8:40), yeah, that's exactly what I'm talking about.
I want to see in movie listings times such as this:
Dumbass 2: The Sequel 8:00 (8:30)
(where the time in parenthesis is post-shitty-advertisements) -
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Sat, December 4, 2004 - 6:40 PMStupid People Vindicated! Hurrah! -
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Sun, December 5, 2004 - 12:15 AMThis is not to say that there aren't genuinely stupid people out there worthy of our derision.
I'm just sayin'...
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Mon, December 6, 2004 - 7:55 AMEdward, times have changed. But that was back with previews were 10 minutes tops. Before there were commericals along with the trailers.
Another thing that bugged us was when people would wait in a long line to buy tickets, get up to the window, say what movie they wanted, we would tell them the cost, and then they would get out their money. If you were waiting in a long line to purchase something, why wouldn't you have your wallet out? -
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Mon, December 6, 2004 - 8:18 AMLOL I hear ya on that one, Sayra! I work for a library, and it amazes me the people who stand in line for ten minutes, yet, when they get to my counter are wholly unprepared. And there are times when they look at me in surprise when I ask them for their card or an ID to be able to help them, as if I can suddenly read minds and should be able to pull the info directly from their minds. Sheesh!
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Thu, December 9, 2004 - 12:15 AM"If you were waiting in a long line to purchase something, why wouldn't you have your wallet out?"
'Cause that hand is busy jerkin' my gherkin'!
heh.
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Thu, December 9, 2004 - 5:48 AMOkay...here's a new one. A woman showed up at a local City Council meeting here where I live in Colorado, totally incensed. Apparently near where she lives there's a small school, and a fenced-in school yard. There is a sign posted on one grassy area that reads, "Designated Pet Area." This woman---god bless her wee little brain---wanted to know how she could get her dogs designated as pets...and why no one told her she had to designate them when she got them. All I can say to that is:
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Thu, December 9, 2004 - 11:26 AMOh, I like that one.
What else do you have in there?
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Sun, January 30, 2005 - 3:04 AMI take phone orders for natural supplements that are advertised on tv, in magazines, etc I have many customers who insist on paying cash. My response, "sorry i can't take cash by phone." -
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Sun, January 30, 2005 - 5:43 AMOMG!! THAT'S HILARIOUS! and scary....these people voted in the last election...just sayin... -
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Tue, February 1, 2005 - 10:33 PMsome of the natural supplements i sell help out with sexual health, i get calls from people with this problem
telephone scatalogia
A nonspecified paraphilia characterized by a recurrent, intense urge or fantasy to make obscene telephone calls
I had another episode where I was in line at a pharmacy called CVS and someone wanted to use their Kroger plus card (an unrelated chain grocery store) in place of the CVS card
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Sun, May 8, 2005 - 1:17 AMThe Jerky Boys redux.
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Sun, May 8, 2005 - 1:15 AMBOSS spelled backwards is: DOUBLE-SOB!!! -
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Mon, May 29, 2006 - 6:04 PMoh i got one, i used to work at a bar/restaraunt, and at the bar theres a window with three pitchers of a clear liquid with ice cubes in it, and glasses arranged for easy convenience, and i swear every day someone would walk up and look OVER the pitchers and ask, " SIR, where can i get some water?" and even sometimes when pointed in the right direction, at the aforesaid pitchers, would look at me and say, " oh! are they all the same?" i wanted to say, " well, two of them are water, but ONE is filled with a poison that will leave you permanently brain damaged, its a game! Please enjoy!" lol -
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Tue, May 30, 2006 - 9:22 AMTell 'em one's decaf. Point at a random pitcher. See what happens. -
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Wed, May 31, 2006 - 5:54 AMI work for the Labor Board. We answer the phone "Labor Board" and too many times to count people will always say "Is this the Labor Board?"
Like duh! Isn't that what I just said?
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Wed, May 31, 2006 - 8:10 AMThen do they say, "I have a question"?
Of course, you have a question. I didn't think that you just called to chat. Just ask the damn question.
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Wed, May 31, 2006 - 8:18 AM"Like duh! Isn't that what I just said?"
Just like the folks who call "one-hour photo".
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Wed, January 31, 2007 - 5:49 PMOne I liked is one of my co-workers overheard a conversation about one of my friends (also a co-worker, but from another department) saying that she had to go where she's from originally (read: Bronx, New York) to visit relatives (as her Dad had complicated surgery) and the commute is bad one way during certain hours.......
and this nit wit said, "Oh, New York? Don't you need a passport?"
You know what's worse? Her husband is the Fire Chief in the town they live in!
Most likely he's the one leading the charge inside burning buildings, hoping they cave in..............
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Thu, February 1, 2007 - 6:37 PMWorked on a cruise ship and I got these doozies ...
"What time is the midnight buffet?"
"Do you live onboard?" (no, I commute!)
"Which elevator goes to the 'front' of the ship?"
Just a sampling!
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Wed, April 11, 2007 - 7:11 AMin college, i worked for the library. we had an information desk front and center in the lobby. for a while, we kept a list of stupid questions in the center desk drawer.
some of my favorites:
(after they came thru the doors into the building) "are you open?" no, get out.
"do you have books here?"
"where are the books?" see the shelves...?
"where's the cafeteria?" turns out, he thought he was in the student union.
"is this the library?"
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Wed, April 11, 2007 - 7:39 AMAs for stupid co-workers, one of mine once photocopied a page for students. She put the same exact thing on the backside of the page as the front. When asked why, she said she did that just in case the students lost it...they'd have a spare!
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Wed, April 11, 2007 - 2:03 PMBarb, that's quite frightening!!
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Wed, April 11, 2007 - 2:37 PMwow, omfg. lol, i dont know whether to be amused or to be frightened.
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